Bush Defends Mexican Murderer Rapist from Death Penalty
Written by Sam on October 8th, 2007 
Bush, who presided over 152 executions as governor of Texas, wants to halt the execution of Jose Ernesto Medellin in what has become a confusing test of presidential power that the Supreme Court ultimately will sort out.
The president wants to enforce a decision by the International Court of Justice that found the convictions of Medellin and 50 other Mexican-born prisoners violated their rights to legal help as outlined in the 1963 Vienna Convention.
That is the same court Bush has since said he plans to ignore if it makes similar decisions affecting state criminal laws.
So now Bush suddenly cares about what the International Court of Justice thinks? Rather interesting case for him to suddenly jump on board with their opinions. This guy is a convicted murderer and rapist of two children and Bush is trying to halt his execution. What Constitutional provision gives Bush the power to interfere in this in the first place?
Once again Bush shows us how he is more concerned about the well being of the Mexican people than he is the American people.
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This post is an outrageous stoop to Moveon.org levels of discourse and straw-man attacks and Sam ought to be ashamed. Of course the President cares more about Americans than rapists, and Jose Medellin is a dead man walking because our country values justice — unlike Mexico.
I’ve said SaveTheGOP was going down the drain. Actually, the drain is now backed up and rotten sewage is being poured all over the floor.
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Joe, no one said Bush cares more about rapists than Americans. All that Sam said was (1) Bush cares more about Mexico than America, which is unquestionably true inasmuch as the President is attempting to force the American criminal-justice system to fall in line with a foreign legal authority; and (2) Bush is defending a Mexican murderer-rapist, which is also unquestionably true inasmuch as Bush is using his power to save Medellin from execution.
I really don’t know who’s the bigger demagogue, you or Publius. Both of you have repeatedly rushed to accuse people of bigotry for disagreeing with you–which alone is enough to make your commentary beneath the level of this or any other site–and both of you attack the obvious as if it were the work of Goebbels.
Your commentary is the rotten sewage, Joe, and it’s been that way for years. All the way back to your comments about the Harriet Miers nomination. If Alan Dershowitz called himself a Republican and wrote comments on this website, I can’t imagine his comments would be any different from yours, in terms of either tone or content. You’re a left-wing attack dog and you represent what’s worst in the GOP.
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Spare me your BS, Joe. We have three border guards in jail for actually protecting our country and Bush sits on his ass doing nothing about it. But, as soon as Mexico runs to The Hague to have the conviction of a man who, with four of his friends, raped and murdered two children Bush suddenly cares about the opinion of the World Court and will argue before the Supreme Court that this man should be spared the death penalty.
This is in addition, of course, to the several attempts the Bush Administration has made to legalize illegal aliens in the country, the vast majority of which are from Mexico, and his speech he gave a few months back in Mexico saying how he was working to change our immigration policy to suit their liking.
Then let’s not forget the obvious, that our borders are still basically wide open in a post 9-11 world.
Those people talking about the North American Union aren’t sounding so nuts any longer.
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I do not know, Sam.
Even I think that there is some bias in your assessment and I am not a Republican!!
Usually, there are more to these international wranglings than meet the eye. All I can say is keep an eye on it. There is something very strange about how this administration is acting. What is so special about this guy? Why try to defend him when Bush rarely defend rapist or murderers in this country?
A strange story indeed.